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Séminaire, Prof. Alessandro Formisano, 21 Nov. 2025

Application of Artificial Intelligence to Computational Electromagnetism

Inverse Magnetostatic Problem Resolution using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)

 Prof. Alessandro Formisano, de l’Université de la Campanie Luigi Vanvitelli.

vendredi 21/11/2025 a 15h00
Atrium au bâtiment Esprit.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1997 at Univ. di Napoli (Italy)
Presently FULL PROFESSOR of electrical sciences (seniority in role: 6 years)

A. Formisano began teaching in 1996/9and has regularly taught in the Engineering Faculty either in Undergraduate and Ph.D. courses, in Electrical Circuits and Electromagnetism. He has been visiting scientist or visiting professor in many foreigner universities, such as Graz (AU) in 2000 AND IN 2004; Jaen (ES) in 2015, Ilmenau (DE) in 2016, Niigata (JP) in 2023 and Lille (FR) in 2024.
The main research interests are:

  • Numerical models for the analysis of electromagnetic coupled problems, Plasma identification problems, numerical analysis of 3D magnetic fields in Tokamaks.
  • Development of methods and algorithms for the optimal design and inverse problems resolution in quasi-stationary electromagnetism, based on both deterministic and stochastic approaches effect of uncertainties in production processes on electromagnetic devices performance
  • Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, applied to the resolution of direct and inverse problems in electromagnetism

As a remarkable note concerning his research activity, since 2018 he has been an External Expert for Fusion For Energy (European agency for the development of Nuclear Fusion) for electromagnetic calculation. In this context, since 2019 he has been dealing with the evaluation of the impact of the error field on the performance of the ITER Tokamak.
Senior Member of IEEE, he is presently member of the IEEE Magnetic Society AdComm and of the Technical Committee. He is also member of the Steering committees of CEFC (for which he acted as Editorial Board Co-Chair in the 2020 edition), of OIPE, and of ISEF. He was the General Chair of Compumag 2025, and designated General Chair of ISEF 2029.
His activity led him to establish numerous collaborations with both Italian and foreign universities and research institutions. These collaborations allowed him to publish numerous scientific works in collaboration with researchers from numerous internationa universities and institutions, such as Department de Etude et Research of the Electricité de France, European Fusion Development Agreement, Forzungcentrum Karlshruhe, Insitute for Electrical Engineering Bratislava, E.N.E.A. Superconductivity, Center de Recherce sur la Phiysique du Plasma, Fusion for Energy.